The “Shaping Color” series was composed during the tumultuous time of the pandemic.
by Claudia Carr Levy
NEW YORK, NY.- Upon first seeing Jason Stewart’s new work, I thought of Filippo Brunelleschi’s facade of the Ospedale degli Innocenti, the foundling hospital in Florence that he was commissioned to design in 1419. The arches of the hospital facade have always captivated me. Brunelleschi’s arches are perfect in their form and progression: perfect graceful architecture. Why, I wondered, did that architectural image appear as I looked at the series of paintings called “Shaping Color”? The precision of Jason Stewart’s arcs in their spaces on canvas resonate with Brunelleschi’s architecture. The paintings seem to transpose geometric architectural form into pictorial space. Perhaps this geometry would seem to belie the dominance and importance of color in these paintings. Yet color holds the arcs; the arcs hold color. The more one looks at these works, the more one observes the paradox between color and form. And the more elusive the paintings become. There is a mystery i ... More
LONDON.- This summer, Colnaghi gallery presents a major survey of Latin American art from the Viceregal period, assembled in collaboration with Jaime Eguiguren, the world's preeminent expert on viceregal art. Marking the first commercial exhibition of this scale ever to be staged, Discovering Viceregal Latin American Treasures brings together more than 100 paintings, sculptures, textiles, and objects from the 17th to 18th centuries, with select Pre-Columbian and Modern masterpieces, reflecting Colnaghi's commitment to supporting cross-category collecting. The exhibition will be on view simultaneously at Colnaghi's galleries in London and New York, from 2 July through 10 September, 2021. It also will be presented online in virtual reality tours starting in July, allowing the public from around the world to examine the works in detail in both locations. As the Spanish began colonising Latin America in the early 16th Century, art became ... More
Kimbel and Cabus (New York, 1863–82). Corner Chair, circa 1875. Painted soft maple, paper, gilding, copper alloy, rubber, modern textile, 27 1/2 × 18 1/2 × 18 1/2 in. (69.9 × 47 × 47 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Bequest of DeLancey Thorn Grant in memory of her mother, Louise Floyd-Jones Thorn, by exchange, 1992.9. Photo: Gavin Ashworth.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Over the course of their remarkable nearly-twenty-year partnership, immigrant cabinetmakers Anton Kimbel (1822–1895) and Joseph Cabus (1824–1898) transformed their business into a leading New York City furniture and decorating firm, and defined a new take on Modern Gothic design for the post–Civil War United States. Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863–82 is the first museum exhibition to trace their timeless American success story, presenting new scholarship and fresh insight into the history of the enterprising design team. Over sixty objects are on view, including forty pieces of furniture as well as digitized ... More
(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A tiny Leonardo da Vinci sketch sold Thursday at Christie’s for 8.9 million pounds with fees, or about $12.2 million, a record price for a Leonardo drawing at auction. Leonardo’s delicate silverpoint study “Head of a Bear,” measuring just under 3 inches by 3 inches, and thought to date from the early 1480s, was included in Christie’s summer “Exceptional Sale” of high-value historical works of art assembled from a range of collecting categories. Estimated to sell for 8 million pounds to 12 million pounds, or $11 million to $16.5 million, the drawing was bought by a single bid from an as-yet-unidentified buyer in the auction room. There was no competition from any telephone or internet bidders. The final price of $12.2 million was marginally better than the $11.5 million given in 2001 for Leonardo’s slightly larger ... More
LONDON.- The wealth of works offered across Christie’s two Classic Week Evening sales – The Exceptional Sale and the Old Masters Evening Sale - have realised a combined total of £64,620,750 / $88,982,773 / €75,347,795. Welcoming registered bidders from 102 countries across 4 continents, the top lot of the evening was Bernardo Bellotto’s View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi which achieved £10,575,000 / $14,561,775 / €12,330,450 (estimate: £12,000,000-18,000,000). Bringing the running total for Classic Week sales to date to £70,214,250 / $96,723,68 / €81,867,274, the auctions continue until 15 July, and with estimates starting from £500 to £18 million this marquee week presents rare opportunities for new and established collectors across price levels. Christie’s Exceptional Sale realised £19,537,500 / $26,903,138 / €22,780,725, selling 77% by lot and 85% ... More
Tracey Emin (British, born 1963), These Feelings Were True. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.-Bonhams announces the launch of Blazing a Trail: Modern British Women to be held in New Bond Street, London on Wednesday 29 September. It is part of a series of innovative sales at Bonhams during 2021 which have already included Ecole de Paris, The Mind’s Eye: the Surrealist sale, Picassomania and The Male Form. The cross-category sale will be curated by Bonhams Director of Modern British and Irish Art, Christopher Dawson, who said: “The idea behind Blazing a Trail is to shine a light on the outstanding female artists of the 20th century, too many of whom remain overlooked and undervalued. The sale will include significant artworks by both established and lesser-known names to give a clearer picture of the century and the pioneering women who shaped some of its major movements, as well as those blazing a trail for the future.” Works already consigned include: • Fisherman by Prunella Clough (1919-1999). This newly ... More
“Putney Swope,” a 1969 comedy about a Black man who is accidentally elected chairman of a Madison Avenue advertising agency, was perhaps Downey’s best-known film.
NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Robert Downey Sr., who made provocative movies like “Putney Swope” that avoided mainstream success but were often critical favorites and were always attention getting, died Wednesday at his home in New York. He was 85. The cause was Parkinson’s disease, his wife, Rosemary Rogers, said. “Putney Swope,” a 1969 comedy about a Black man who is accidentally elected chairman of a Madison Avenue advertising agency, was perhaps Downey’s best-known film. “To be as precise as is possible about such a movie,” Vincent Canby wrote in a rave review in The New York Times, “it is funny, sophomoric, brilliant, obscene, disjointed, marvelous, unintelligible and relevant.” The film, though probably a financial success by Downey’s standards, made only about $2.7 million. (By comparison, “Butch Cassidy and the ... More
The “Rhinocéros III” sculpture presented in this collection is the smallest of the rhinoceros variations that François-Xavier produced.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.-Freeman’s will present for the first time at auction a private collection of seven sculptures by celebrated artist François-Xavier Lalanne in its November 17 Modern and Contemporary Art auction. Anchored by a set of five of Lalanne’s iconic epoxy stone and bronze sheep, or “Mouton de Pierre,” each sculpture in the collection was acquired directly from the artist in the late 1980s and has remained in the same home ever since. The collection, coming from a prominent Washington, D.C. family, includes five “Mouton de Pierre” of consecutive numbers from a 1988 edition of 250 (estimate: $100,000-150,000 ea.), a patinated bronze “Rhinocéros III” (estimate: $60,000-80,000), and a patinated bronze “Éléphant” (estimate: $40,000-60,000). Says Freeman’s Chairman Alasdair Nichol, “Without question, the French sculptor and designer ... More
Extremely rare Knickerbocker 15½-inch soft doll of Mickey Mouse dressed as clown, 1935 version. Sold for $13,337 against an estimate of $2,000-$5,000.
YORK, PA.- If records are made to be broken, then Hake’s has clearly mastered the art of an encore performance. Their June 29-30 auction, which grossed a robust $3.6 million, rewrote the company’s history books as it became their second consecutive auction to break an existing house record. Along the way, a number of new individual record prices were set, as well. “The June 29-30 result, combined with the $2.9 million total from our first Premier Auction of 2021, puts us at $6.5 million so far this year, and that’s without even adding the totals of our Internet auctions,” said Hake’s president Alex Winter. “On top of that, we still have one more Premier Auction scheduled for this year. Needless to say, we’re very excited about the current state of the market for vintage collectibles.” The June auction’s top lot was a 1999 Pokémon Shadowless Holographic uncut proof sheet with 99 cards ... More
Bill Bowerman Handmade Prototype Logo Track Spikes. Estimate: $1M+. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- To commemorate of XXXII Olympiad taking place this summer in Tokyo, Sotheby’s presents The Olympic Collection, an online auction featuring the rarest memorabilia and collectibles spotlighting the achievements of legendary athletes who participated in the Games across the world of sport and which celebrates the unifying spirit embodied by the Games. Open for bidding beginning 23 July, coinciding with the opening ceremony for the world’s largest sporting event, the auction is comprised of more than 50 lots and is highlighted by two pieces of Olympic history: an extremely rare pair of ‘Prototype Logo’ track spikes handmade by Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman for Canadian Track and Field sprinter and Olympian Harry Jerome in the 1960s and modified in the early 1970s (estimate $800,000/1,200,000); and a pair of Converse Fastbreak sneakers worn by Michael Jordan during the 1984 ... More
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- This summer, the Yale University Art Gallery, in association with Yale University Press, will release a paperback edition of the critically acclaimed publication Art Can Help, by American photographer Robert Adams (born 1937). Originally published by the Gallery in 2017, Art Can Help—chosen by Photo-Eye magazine as one of the best photography books of 2017 and the second-place winner in the Books category of the 2018 New England Museum Association Publication Awards—shares over two dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of the artist. The first edition, published in hardcover, sold out its entire print run. The new paperback edition, available in summer 2021, puts this prescient book back into print. In the brief essays in the book, Adams—one of America’s most renowned photographers—makes an argument for what art should mean to our lives. He advocates for art that evokes ... More
“Spirits: African and Oceanic Art from the Dr. Alan and Linda Rich Collection” is available for viewing now.
LAKELAND, FL.- Just over a year ago, the Polk Museum of Art welcomed visitors to its original exhibition “Spirits: Ritual and Ceremonial African and Oceanic Art from the Dr. Alan and Linda Rich Collection,” a full-scale show that displayed one-of-kind, artisan-made ritual and ceremonial art objects collected from across Africa and Papua New Guinea and generously lent by Lakeland locals Dr. Alan and Linda Rich. Following the success of the 2019 exhibition and their experience working with the Museum to present the show, the Riches gifted their extensive collection to be displayed permanently in a dedicated gallery space at the Museum. Over the course of four decades, the Riches traveled the world helping those in need. With his profession as an ophthalmologist and eye surgeon and hers as an occupational therapist trained to help Dr. Rich in clinics and in surgeries, the ... More
Fernanda Gomes, Sem título, 2010/2017. Wood, paint, 191 x 2 x 14 cm.
MADRID.- ARCOmadrid celebrates its 40th edition this year between 7 - 11 July, incorporating a special Latin American art section, produced in collaboration with Mariano Mayer. At this event, Latin American takes on new importance with the incorporation of a special section dedicated to Latin American art. Luciana Brito Galeria participates both in the newly curated section and in the online section ARCO E-XHIBITIONS, while Galeria Luisa Strina participates exclusively online, in ARCO E-XHIBITIONS, running parallel to the permanent physical spaces of the galleries. Galeria Luisa Strina features the works of Fernanda Gomes and Jarbas Lopes, in the digital section of ARCOmadrid, the ARCO E-XHIBITIONS. Jarbas Lopes' work moves between painting, sculpture, drawing, artist books and performance. Many of his works are participatory or sensory, and the artist ... More
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Collector and scholar John Andrew Herdeg dies at age 83 MENDENHALL, PA.- John Andrew Herdeg, age 83, passed away peacefully in his sleep at home on Sunday, June 27, 2021. Born in Buffalo, NY on September 15, 1937, son of Franklin Leland and Susannah Estelle Clark Herdeg, John spent his youth in Gowanda, NY. He graduated from Deerfield Academy, Princeton University and The University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 1961, John married his lifetime love, Judith (Judy) Coolidge Carpenter, moved to Connecticut and joined the Connecticut Bar while working in New York City as an assistant to the Trustee of the bankrupt New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Shortly thereafter, Judy and John moved to Wilmington DE where he joined the Delaware Bar and the Wilmington Trust Company as a staff attorney. After a successful 20 year career, John left Wilmington Trust with the title of Senior Vice President as the Head of the Trust ... More
Museum of the African Diaspora to establish new chief curator position with support of Mellon Foundation SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-The Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco has recently been awarded $350,000 over two years from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Museum’s first-ever Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs. With this newly created leadership position, MoAD aims to elevate its presence as a global leader within the contemporary art world in presenting and celebrating art from a uniquely African Diasporic perspective. The Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs will oversee the design of a strategic direction for the Museum’s exhibitions and programs; lead globally on identifying and promoting emerging artists from the African Diaspora; and expand MoAD’s reach and influence locally, nationally, and internationally. The first-time hire is expected to be made by fall 2021. A committee that will include distinguished scholars ... More
BALTIC announces Kate Gray as new Director of Enterprise and Public Value GATESHEAD.-BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art announced the appointment of Kate Gray in the role of Director of Enterprise and Public Value. Kate will take up the position in September 2021 and will play a leading role in the direction of BALTIC’s strategic development, generating commercial opportunities that enable BALTIC to selfsustain, leverage innate cultural assets, and place civic responsibility and public value at the heart of its business objectives and operation. Speaking today about the appointment Sarah Munro, Director of BALTIC said: “I am delighted that we have been able to strengthen BALTIC’s senior management team through the appointment of Kate Gray. Kate brings a wealth of experience that will be invaluable as we seek to utilise the arts to address key social and environmental challenges and support recovery from the pandemic. This role is a groundbreaking ... More
Suzzanne Douglas, star of 'The Parent 'Hood,' dies at 64 NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Suzzanne Douglas, an actress who appeared on Broadway but was probably best known for her role as a wife, mother and law student on the sitcom “The Parent ’Hood,” died Tuesday at her home on Martha’s Vineyard, in Massachusetts. She was 64. Her husband, Jonathan Cobb, said the cause was complications of cancer. He did not specify what type of cancer Douglas had, but he said she had been sick for more than two years. Douglas played a wide array of roles in her career. Eight years after her first on-screen appearance, in the 1981 television adaptation of the Broadway musical “Purlie,” she starred alongside Gregory Hines, Sammy Davis Jr. and Savion Glover in the theatrical movie “Tap,” earning an NAACP Image Award. In 1994, she was seen in the films “The Inkwell” (1994) and “Jason’s Lyric.” She became nationally known as the ... More
'Legally Blonde' oral history: From raunchy script to feminist classic NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In 2001, Reese Witherspoon was already on her way to becoming a household name. But it would be the feminist masterpiece “Legally Blonde” that would cement her status as a Hollywood star. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Amanda Brown, “Legally Blonde” follows Elle Woods (Witherspoon) from ditsy, sorority socialite to first-year law student in an effort to win back her ex-boyfriend Warner (Matthew Davis). But what transpires next surprises everyone, including herself: The perky blonde with a tiny Chihuahua named Bruiser and a flair for pink discovers she is actually cut out for the courtroom. It’s been 20 years since Elle, against all odds, got into Harvard Law, fended off a professor’s advances and came to the legal defense of a sorority alumna. She remains an emblem for challenging stereotypes and embracing female ... More
From the schlump with the shiv, two plays turned podcasts NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- If you consider yourself a creative person, a member of the intelligentsia or even just a lover of the arts, you may want to avoid the plays of Wallace Shawn. You (and I and the arts) do not come off well in them. Scratch his deep thinkers and dilettantes and you find fascists and sheep underneath. Well, he should know. If any American playwright has lived a double life, it’s Shawn. Best known from his many film, television and voice-over performances as a twinkling human Yoda, he writes himself into his plays as a schlump concealing a shiv. The more inconsequential the mood at the start, the more dead bodies at the end. In less confident hands, such plays — including “The Designated Mourner” and “Grasses of a Thousand Colors,” which have just been turned into terrific earworm podcasts — would be insufferable. They are too funny and then too weird to ... More
The Cannes Film Festival is back, lavish and maskless (despite the rules) CANNES(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Maggie Gyllenhaal’s eyes widened. It had been 15 months since the actress was last in a movie theater, a pandemic-era streak she broke Tuesday night at the splashy Cannes Film Festival premiere of “Annette,” a new musical starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard. “It was great, but it was also kind of a shock,” Gyllenhaal told me afterward at the festival’s opening-night dinner. As a member of the jury that awards the prestigious Palme d’Or, Gyllenhaal has a full slate of premieres to attend over the next two weeks. Still, after the pandemic kept the movie industry’s in-person revelry to a minimum, getting reacclimated to all that glitz and glamour may take some time. “The premiere was like a trial by fire, especially the red-carpet stuff,” Gyllenhaal said. “I haven’t done anything like that in so long. I forgot how intense it is!” If Cannes has retained its ... More
Robots can make music, but can they sing? LONDON(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For its first 30 seconds, the song “Listen to Your Body Choir” is a lilting pop tune, with a female voice singing over gentle piano. Then, everything starts to fracture, as twitchy beats and samples fuse with bizarre lyrics like “Do the cars come with push-ups?” and a robotic voice intertwines with the human sound. The transition is intended to evoke the song’s co-writer: artificial intelligence. “Listen to Your Body Choir,” which won this year’s AI Song Contest, was produced by M.O.G.I.I.7.E.D., a California-based team of musicians, scholars and AI experts. They instructed machines to “continue” the melody and lyrics of “Daisy Bell,” Harry Dacre’s tune from 1892 that became, in 1961, the first to be sung using computer speech synthesis. The result in “Listen to Your Body Choir” is a track that sounds both human and machine-made. The AI Song Contest, which ... More
These drama students trained for years. Then theater vanished. NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Things got real the night the drama students reached Atlanta. Truth be told, they should have seen it coming. There were the news reports. And the cancellations. And a bunch of them felt sick. But still, this was showcase, a night they had prepped for all year. A night they would finally get to perform for agents and managers and casting directors, who might then agree to represent them or invite them to an audition. A night that could set them up for success. Or not. They anticipated an audience of two dozen gatekeepers from Georgia’s burgeoning film and television industry. Instead, there were three. The students, from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, performed anyway. The show must go on and all that. But it was weird. And when it was over, it was really over. “I remember walking out and feeling like, what the hell am I going to do?” ... More
The 'prince of opera' bids Munich farewell MUNICH(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Half an hour before the opening of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” Nikolaus Bachler took a final stroll backstage. Bachler — who has run the Bavarian State Opera here since 2008, during which time it has been the world’s opera capital for artists and audiences alike — stopped by the dressing room of his Isolde, Anja Harteros, asking whether she had slept well the night before. With a traditional “toi toi toi,” he wished her good luck. He waited to check in on Jonas Kaufmann, who was singing Tristan, because through the door he heard conductor Kirill Petrenko — the company’s music director during much of Bachler’s tenure and a crucial ingredient of his success — giving some last-minute notes. Then more blown kisses and “toi toi toi” wishes, and Bachler took a seat in his box alongside the proscenium. He looked out at the audience, which, though dotted ... More
MARC STRAUS now represents Renée Stout NEW YORK, NY.-MARC STRAUS announced the representation of Renée Stout. Renée Stout (b. 1958) is a mixed media artist who lives and works in Washington, DC. She draws inspiration from current social and political events, the African Diaspora, daily city life, and the spiritual realm. Stout’s objects and paintings often emerge from her decades long research into art history and Hoodoo spiritual traditions that have arisen from African roots through American slavery to the present. Hoodoo practices are vibrant and very extant in parts of the American Southeast and Caribbean. Stout’s sculptures vary in size, and are created by hand. These fabricated machine-like objects are meant to connect us to the spiritual realm and otherworldly powers. They more broadly represent the hopes and desires that faiths and religions around the globe seek to fill. Universal desires for health, love ... More
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